It turns out that for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, in 1927, the monument to Alexander III on Uprising Square was put in a cage

The project was devised by the architect Ivan Fomin, author of the concept of proletarian classicism, known for the NKVD building on Lubyanka and the interiors of the Moscow Metro stations Krasnye Vorota and Teatralnaya.

Alexander III sat behind these bars for ten years, until he was transferred to the basement of the Russian Museum.

In the press the composition was called "The Scarecrow in a Cage". A supremely unworthy gesture, of course. Shame on all concerned, from the ideologues to the executors, and on Fomin, naturally. Then again, this ethical level was the defining one for the existence of Bolshevik functionaries.

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